mike | 3 Nov 2011 | 474 Views | 3 Likes | 0 Dislikes

I Love YouTube: supercut.org

Look, I know Tara said we were doing death metal this week, but I've made an editorial in chiefital decision and pulled a hard left turn, here, because I found something cooler. Sorry.

One of the weird side effects of the internetization of the globe is the defacto omnipresence of media, which is to say we are now somehow living in an age where almost all movies, books, music or whatever are all simultaneously available, at a whim. Forget the Boss's 57 channels, we, if we have a fast enough internet connection, can pretty much watch whatever we want, whenever we want to watch it. Which is cool in a massive, yawning, ennui-enducing "how can I possibly be bored" kind of way. What's cooler, though, is the meta-projects clever people can do when you have a century's worth of film and tv to comb through and recut: witness supercut.org, a website dedicating to assembling the crowds cut-together assemblages of all of the given somethings in a something:

200 Christmases In 2 Minutes from Cinefamily on Vimeo.

These clips are by turns hilarious, surprising, hypnotic and whiplash-inducing. There's a remix element to a lot of them that's a mixture of artistic editing and a delightfully odd way of looking at a given piece of media. They can turn something mundane into something completely captivating, and at the heart of each is an observation, such as the one had by an editor noticing Sarah Palin's weird breathing:

Palin's Breath from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo.

The truly fantastic ones, though, are by folks who pull nuggets out of an actor's entire career, or pull a subset of lines out of the grand assemblage of all movies, ever, such as the following two:

the site has hundreds of them, and most if not all are hilariously entertaining. Check it out, they love youtube too! Also, check out the "supersupercut".

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